Customers pay a small deposit to join the pool. The bigger the total deposited, the bigger the reward for all who join.
Community Deposit lets your regulars commit to you ahead of a busy season. You open a pool with a target size, a closing date and a reward curve: a spring coffee pool, say, or a winter bread bundle. Customers deposit, and the reward grows with the group's total. If the target is missed, every deposit is returned in full.
It suits shops with a loyal local base, people happy to commit early when the deposit is small and safe. Anyone who joins has a stake in the pool filling up, which gives them a reason to tell friends about it.
Before ordering ingredients and booking extra staff for a themed tasting night, a restaurant wants to know people will come.
Guests put down a deposit to join the pool, so the restaurant can see committed demand before it confirms the night.
If the pool reaches its target, the night goes ahead with a known head count. If it doesn't, guests get their deposits back and the restaurant hasn't bought a thing.
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Every January a gym signs up a wave of new members, and by February half of them have stopped coming.
A deposit turns a resolution into a small commitment, and because the reward grows with the group, early joiners have a reason to bring their friends.
Members train alongside people they brought in themselves, which makes it harder to drift away by February.
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Christmas pastries take days to prepare, and a bakery that guesses wrong ends up with a full bin or an empty shelf.
A pre-order pool shows the bakery how much customers have committed before the rush, so it doesn't have to guess how much to bake.
The flour order matches the deposits, and customers collect their pastries with the extra credit the pool earned.
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The more the community deposits, the bigger everyone's reward. If the pool misses its target, all deposits come back in full.
Billed per 2-week pool period.
| Clients | Price | + Direct Credit | Max spend counted / client | Offers / month | Notification reach |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ≤ 33 | €0 | €0 | €500 | 3 | 33 |
| ≤ 666 | €60 | €75 | €1000 | 6 | 666 |
| ≤ 2999 | €90 | €110 | €1500 | 9 | 2999 |
| ≤ 5333 | €140 | €175 | €2000 | 12 | 5333 |
| Above top tier | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom |
Above the top tier shown, we set pricing for your account.
Direct Credit can be activated on top of any reward model above, for a small extra fee at your tier. The "+ Direct Credit" column shows the total price.
The max spend counted applies to each client in each pool, not to the pool's total. If a client spends more than this while the pool is active, the extra doesn't count towards their reward. A pool's total is what all clients spend, each counted up to this limit.
Separately, a client can hold at most €200 in reward credit at any one retailer, however many pools they join. If a client already holds €140 there and a new purchase would earn more than €60 in reward, only €60 is credited. The client should spend some of that credit first, then keep buying in the pool to build back up towards the €200 limit.
Push and in-app notifications never cost anything, at any tier. Email carries a small per-broadcast cost that rises with your tier.
A client can take part in a Community Purchase or Community Deposit pool at most once every 2 months, across both combined.
A retailer can activate a new Community Purchase or Community Deposit pool at most once every 2 months.
Every deposit is returned in full, so customers lose nothing if the pool doesn't reach its target.
A Community Deposit pool rewards only the people who joined it. Their deposit goes towards their own future purchases at your shop, not towards funding someone else's product or idea.